{"title":"Iris Murdoch","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"murdoch-iris-an-unofficial-rose-first-edition","title":"Murdoch, Iris.                An Unofficial Rose.      First Edition.","description":"\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"sdw6jy\" data-start=\"789\" data-end=\"804\"\u003eIris Murdoch\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"7t5nzs\" data-start=\"806\" data-end=\"832\"\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"830\"\u003eAn Unofficial Rose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"862\"\u003eLondon: Chatto \u0026amp; Windus, 1962\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"878\"\u003eFirst edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"1222\"\u003eOctavo. Original cloth, in the publisher’s unclipped dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding clean and sharp, the contents bright and fresh. The very good dustwrapper shows light rubbing, minor toning a little wear to spine ends and previously repaired minor chips- see photographs. It remains attractive and substantially complete. Jacket now protected by removable archival  cover. Very light and scant spotting on page block. There has been some pencil writing previously erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1525\"\u003eMurdoch’s sixth novel, \u003cem data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1267\"\u003eAn Unofficial Rose\u003c\/em\u003e is a densely worked study of romantic confusion, moral evasion, and emotional self-deception. Set among overlapping domestic and social entanglements, it displays the philosophical seriousness and comic cruelty that mark her strongest fiction of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1759\"\u003ePublished in the decade following \u003cem data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1576\"\u003eUnder the Net\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1591\"\u003eThe Bell\u003c\/em\u003e, the novel belongs to Murdoch’s important early sequence, before the full consolidation of her reputation as one of the major British novelists of the post-war period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1868\"\u003eA smart copy of an early Murdoch title, uncommon in this condition with the original unclipped dustwrapper, designed by T.Richie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mrs Middlebrow's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54106807468378,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2260\/8986\/files\/IMG_4823.jpg?v=1777992242"}],"url":"https:\/\/mrsmiddleton.com\/collections\/iris-murdoch.oembed","provider":"Mrs Middlebrow's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}